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| When: | |
Wednesday 08 October 2008 at 19:30 |
| Where: | |
Royal Festival Hall, London |
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| Performers: | |
Kurt Masur, conductor Louis Lortie, piano London Philharmonic Orchestra |
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| Programme : | | Franz Schubert |
| 1: | | Overture to 'Rosamunde', D644 |
| Felix Mendelssohn | |
| 2: | | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2 in D minor, Op 40 |
| Antonín Dvorák | |
| 3: | | Symphony No 9 in E minor, 'From the New World', Op 95 |
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| Note: | |
Dvorák, lured to America to head up a new music college, is often said to have written his Ninth Symphony out of homesickness. But the work is also an orchestral homage to the composer’s new home: Dvorák’s first movement has its basis in the folk themes of the New World, whilst his cor anglais theme, famously used in the Hovis advertisement, actually comes from the spirituals of the plantation fields. Dvorák entered the New World with optimism, and his symphony shares its soul with the grass roots of the American people – popular music indeed. Hear it first online. Access our online playlist of the music for our concerts. |
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| Ticket Prices: | |
Ł9 - Ł38, Ł55 - Tickets available from London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office (Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm), 020 7840 4242, online, or from Southbank Centre Ticket Office, 0871 663 2530 (fees apply) |
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| Venue: | |
Royal Festival Hall Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX England |
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020 7921 0843 |
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020 7928 2049 |
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